Panorpa americana, Swederus, 1787

Dickson, Kathryn, 2024, Catalogue of the Family Panorpidae (Mecoptera) in Canada, México and the United States, Zootaxa 5559 (1), pp. 1-63 : 10

americana Swederus, 1787

Panorpa americana Swederus 1787: 278 (description); Turton 1802: 406 (name americana associated with fasciata ); Westwood 1841: 189 (description); Walker 1852: 463 (description); Hagen 1861: 242 (description); Banks 1892: 362 (NA species list, americana found in GA, KY); Hine 1901: 250 (description), plate LIX, fig. 5 (♀ wing); Banks 1907: 33 (updated NA species list, americana present in “southern states”); Banks 1908: 153 (NC species list); Sherman 1908: 51 (late season species in NC); Esben-Petersen 1915: 224 (list of American species); Esben-Petersen 1921: 65 (description); Otanes 1922: 317 and figs 10, 12, 13, 24, 31, 42, 47, 48, 51, 56, 61 (anatomy of head); Carpenter 1931: 222 species key, 235 description, fig 17 (♂ genital bulb), fig 57 (♀ genital plate), fig 79 (forewing); Carpenter 1939: 163 (new record from MS); Byers 1954: 495 (summary of distribution AL, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NJ, NC); Byers 1962a: 468 (lectotype designation), fig 1 (♂ genital bulb); Byers 1973: 373 (new record from VA); Byers 1993: 72, map 4 (new records from SC, habitat); Stark et al. 2016: 5 (new records within MS); Flint, et al. 2020: 7 (key), 8 (VA seasonal and locality records), fig 22 (wings), fig 46 (♂ genital bulb), map 11 (distribution in VA).

Lectotype ♂: OUMNH. As reported by Byers (1962a) the specimen’s labels read “ P. americana Swederus, Act. Holm. 1787 , p.278”, and “ fasciata Fab., E. S. , 2: 98, N. Am.” A third label is a “blue, lozenge-shaped tag bearing the letter W”. A small fourth label reads “N. H.” Recent photos also show a red label indicating “ Lectotype Panorpa americana Swederus, George W. Byers, 1962 ”, and an Oxford label reading “Mecopt. No 3”. Byers (1962a) believed the females in the original series were a different species.

Panorpa fasciata Fabricius 1793: 98 (description); Turton 1802: 406 (name americana associated with fasciata ); Klug 1836: 105 (synonymy with rufa ); Westwood 1841: 189 (synonymy of fasciata and americana , also concluded that Klug’s sample had comprised several species); Rambur 1842: 331 (description), pl. 8 fig 5 (habitus); Byers 1962a: 470 (stated that Klug never claimed a North American fasciata , subsequent references by others to Panorpa fasciata Klug are incorrect).

Syntype (s): Unknown ( Byers 1962a: 470).

Distribution: USA; AL, DE, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, NJ, SC, VA.